There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTherefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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